Red Anemone Books set up shop in the middle of the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest for this wonderful annual event. Live music played in the street’s small park. The restaurants were fired up for brisk trade. Despite blazing heat, the crowds showed up ready to check out books, authors, publishers, and bookstores. Fans [...]

We’ll be launching Pins this Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row Lit Fest. Held outdoors on Dearborn between Congress and Polk in the near south Loop, the Printers Row book fair attracts well over 100,000 book lovers along with numerous publishers and authors every year. We hope [...]

Pins is making great headway in the UK, and also in the US, Canada, and Australia. My thanks to everyone who has purchased a copy.

My novel Pins is now published and can be ordered through online bookstores, high street bookstores, or direct from: redanemone.com. Pins was quietly launched online from Red Anemone Books yesterday (March 6th). We were surprised and delighted to sell eleven copies before the end of the day.  It’s a hopeful start.  Check out Red Anemone [...]

We just returned home from a wonderful week in the magnificent Lake District, with a detour back to London via Yorkshire. This was a first for my American husband, Jean. Thanks to him we now have more photos of sheep than we know what to do with, all of them cute.  As writers, we felt [...]

Salt Publishing is an admired independent publisher of poetry and short story collections.  Thanks to the credit crunch, they are 80% down in sales. A few days ago, they put out the following request: “Please buy just one book, right now. We don’t mind from where, you can buy it from us or from Amazon, [...]